Book description
A searing and magnificent picture of Australia at the moment of its
foundation, with early settlers staking out their small patch of land
and terrified by the harsh and alien continent. Focussing on the
hostility between the early British inhabitants and the native
Aborigines.
Remembering Bablyon
tells the tragic and compelling story of a boy who finds himself caught
between the two worlds. Shot through with humour, and written with the
poetic intensity that characterised Malouf's An Imaginary Life,
this is a novel of epic scope yet it is simple, compassionate and
universal: a classic. David Malouf is the internationally acclaimed
author of novels including The Great World
(winner of the Commonwealth Writers' prize and the Prix Femina
Etranger), Remembering Babylon
(shortlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of the IMPAC Dublin
Literary Award), An Imaginary Life
, Conversations at Curlow Creek,
His most recent, Ransom,
published in 2010, and his autobiographical classic 12 Edmondstone Street
. His Collected Stories
won the 2008 Australia-Asia Literary Award, and his recent story
collections are Dream Stuff
('These stories are pearls' Spectator
) and Every Move You Make
('Rare and luminous talent' Guardian
). In 2008 Malouf was the Scottish Arts' Council Muriel Spark
International Fellow. Born in 1934 in Brisbane, where he was brought up,
he lives in Sydney.
